Except USSC justices face no electoral risk. Other than bad press which will eventually blow over if there’s no actual investigation. Even the revelation of a mistress or even a whole brothel will blow over. Embarrassing but who will actually care? Loses conservatives? If so then why threaten to reveal all now! That will drive him away from conservatives and toward liberals. If that was a real possibility, why wasn’t it sung from the DC rafters long ago. If had been done, they would have saved some past rulings like abortion.
Again, I see no reason to resort to blackmail! There must be another reason. How about just poor at his job?
I think he has always been poor at his job and low on courage and self-confidence-if he wasn’t, he would not have folded to blackmail threats in the 1st place-he would have stood his ground. Clarence Thomas has been threatened and attacked since his confirmation hearings in 1991. If someone threatened him with blackmail over anything, I’m sure he’d tell them to fo...